Demonology and Devil-lore, Band 1

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Seite ix CHAPTER I. DUALISM. - Origin of Deism—Evolution from the far to the near—
Illustrations from Witchcraft—The primitive Pantheism—The dawn of Dualism .
CHAPTER II. THE GENESIS OF DEMONS. Their good names euphemistic—
Their ...

Seite xiii GENERALISATION OF DEMONS. The Demons' bequest to their conquerors—
Nondescripts—Exaggerations of Tradition—Saurian Theory of Dragons—The
Dragon not primitive in Mythology—Monsters of Egyptian, Iranian, Vedic, and
Jewish ...

Seite 1 Origin of Deism—Evolution from the far to the near—Illustrations from witchcraft
— The primitive Pantheism — The dawn of Dualism. A college in the State of
Ohio has adopted for its motto the words 'Orient thyself.' This significant
admonition to ...

Seite 2 The forms that peopled the celestial spaces may have been those of ancestors,
kings, and great men, but anterior to all forms was the poetic enthusiasm which
built heavenly mansions for them ; and the crude cosmogonies of primitive
science ...

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Seite 13 - What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did He smile His work to see? Did He who made the lamb make thee...

Seite 231 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

Seite 343 - Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

Seite 187 - And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat : and Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat...

Seite 169 - And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

Seite 259 - who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage ? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us ; he will subdue our iniquities : and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.